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  • Bush aware of illegal behavior "A wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed"
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    So the first thing I want you to think about is, when you hear Patriot Act, is that we changed the law and the bureaucratic mind-set to allow for the sharing of information. It’s vital. And others will describe what that means.
    Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires-a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we’re talking about chasing down (…)

  • U.S. Rep. John Lewis calls for Bush impeachment
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Congressman calls for Bush impeachment
    U.S. Rep. John Lewis said Monday in a radio interview that President Bush should be impeached if he broke the law in authorizing spying on Americans.
    The Democratic senator from Georgia told WAOK-AM he would sign a bill of impeachment if one was drawn up and that the House of Representatives should consider such a move.
    Lewis is among several Democrats who have voiced discontent with Sunday night’s television speech, where Bush asked Americans to (…)

  • Bush Attempted to Talk New York Times Out of Running Illegal Spying Story
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dec. 19, 2005 - Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power. President Bush came out swinging on Snoopgate-he made it seem as if those who didn’t agree with him wanted to leave us vulnerable to Al Qaeda-but it will not work. We’re seeing clearly now that Bush thought 9/11 gave him license to act like a dictator, or in his own mind, no doubt, like Abraham (…)

  • $8 Billion in Bonuses awarded to Defense Contractors, "regardless of performance"
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Defense Department paid contractors $8 billion over five years in bonuses on weapons programs that were often dogged by severe cost overruns, performance problems and delays, the Government Accountability Office said.
    The agency, an independent auditor for Congress, reviewed 93 of 597 military contracts in force between 1999 and 2004 that included the possibility of a bonus. Contractors on average were awarded about 90 percent of the bonus money available, the agency said in the draft (…)

  • BUSH FOOLS AMERICANS BY APPEARING TO ACCEPT MCCAIN’S BAN ON TORTURE
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D. December 16 , 2005
    In Washington politics, things are seldom what they appear to be - especially when devious Machiavellians are running the White House. And we often end up getting a fairy-tale version of reality because the USA’s government-corporate-media complex prefers to ignore unpleasant-but-true stories while it promotes pleasant-but-false stories.
    For instance, the mainstream media is burying a major Bushite deception right now, so as to (…)

  • Iraqi National Resistance Offers US Cease Fire for Promise to Leave Within 6 Months
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraqi National Resistance and other Iraqi Political Forces Terms for Ceasefire and End of Occupation By Kevin Zeese December 15, 2005
    Mounzer Sleiman, Ph.D. is a vice president and founding member of the National Council of Arab Americans . He is an independent political-military analyst with expertise in U.S. national security affairs, the subject of his doctorate dissertation. In addition, he is an independent media consultant with more than twenty five years of experience in Middle East (…)

  • Democratic senator says Bush violated law with wiretaps: He is a president, not a king
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From a release issued to RAW STORY by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) in response to President Bush’s admission Saturday that the president personally authorized wiretaps of individuals who emailed or phoned other countries.
    “Yesterday morning, Republican and Democratic Senators blocked a flawed bill that extended parts of the Patriot Act that are set to expire without fixing the fundamental problems with the law. Nobody wants these parts of the Patriot Act to expire — we want to fix them before (…)

  • Osama, Saddam? What’s in a name?
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
    With a slip of the tongue, U.S. President George W. Bush briefly turned Osama bin Laden into Saddam Hussein on Monday.
    Bush momentarily switched the names of his two greatest nemeses in a news conference at the White House where he was defending his decision to authorize eavesdropping on Americans suspected of links with al Qaeda and other organizations in the U.S. war on terrorism.
    "In the late 1990s, our government was following Osama bin Laden because he was (…)

  • The Making of the Enemy [ Part One of Two]
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Only in America
    The coming years, like those of the present and the past, will see the continued spewing of fictionalized propaganda designed to manipulate the fears, hatreds, xenophobia and nationalistic tendencies of the population. The level of control over the masses and power over the nation in the years after 9/11 by corporatists intent on hijacking the country became, to them, a rousing success, thanks to the intense levels of fear and hatred engendered by the horrific events of (…)

  • Bush Says Iraq War Is Good for Israel
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    News
    By FORWARD STAFF December 16, 2005
    http://www.forward.com/main/printer-friendly.php?id=7020
    In sharp contrast to the growing consensus of Jerusalem’s security and political establishment, President Bush argued this week that Israel’s safety depends on democratization of the Arab world.
    "If you’re a supporter of Israel, I would strongly urge you to help other countries become democracies," President Bush declared Monday, in a major address defending American policy in Iraq (…)